An exciting opportunity is available to join the altered airways clinical nurse specialist (CNS) team on a fixed term 12 month secondment. The CNS acts as a key worker, providing an expert nursing service to patients with a tracheostomy or laryngectomy, alongside the multi-professional team. Candidates must have significant experience and a passion for airway management and delivering excellent patient care. They must demonstrate confidence within this field and be a team worker and motivated towards delivering high standards. They will be supported in decision making and improving knowledge and skills by working with the team leader. Candidates must have clinical skills such as competence for altered airway care. They must be confident to deliver teaching and support to patients and their families. They can expect to work in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Main duties of the job

Key duties:

Be a key worker for a patient group, including head and neck cancer and a range of specialities, attend multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings to plan and action patient care including routine tracheostomy set changes

Work autonomously in managing a case load of patients including nurse led clinics

Support respiratory weans with eventual decannulation

Act as a specialist resource for knowledge and delivering teaching sessions to Trust staff

Support pathway of inpatients from surgery through to discharge

Support with service development and audit

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• *Registered Nurse with valid NMC registration
• *Evidence of post registration CPD / post registration qualification in altered airway management or relevant alternative or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to FHEQ Level 6
• *Evidence of completed tracheostomy management competency
• *Expanded practice in decannulation procedure

Desirable

• *Evidence of training or courses related to airway management or head and neck cancer care.
• *Competence in tracheostomy set changes

Experience

Essential

• *Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
• *Significant post registration experience, with evidence of passion/ enthusiasm and knowledge for altered airway management.
• *Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of on-going professional development/ competence
• *Demonstrate specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to altered airway management.
• *Experience and enthusiasm for teaching/assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting
• *Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
• *Demonstrate understanding / experience / willingness to be a practice-based supervisor / assessor as detailed in the NMC

Desirable

• *Experience in service development

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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